Maes trails Tancredo in fundraising; faces more fines

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes raised $50,201 in August, which was an increase over previous months but still only 25 percent of the $200,485 that third-party candidate Tom Tancredo collected.

Maes has $19,786 remaining, while Tancredo has $141,028.

Maes is also facing yet another possible campaign finance violation. The Secretary of State’s office Tuesday issued a penalty of $1,900 for Maes’ failure to report one or more contributors on his July disclosures, according to the office’s website. Maes has objected to the fine and filed for a waiver.

Maes has already paid a record fine of $17,500, as well as another $125 for campaign finance violations. In addition to the new penalty, he also has two outstanding fines for $300 and $800.

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, the Democratic nominee, reported Tuesday that his campaign raised nearly $404,000 in August, bringing his total contributions for the campaign to about $2.7 million.

Maes last week rebuked calls from prominent Republicans that he exit the race before the general election ballot was certified, saying that he could not “turn my back on the 200,000 voters who nominated me to run for this office,” Maes said.

In insisting that he would stay in the race, Tancredo termed Maes “no longer viable.”

Colorado voters still can relate to and support a grassroots underdog like Dan Maes who can thumb his nose at the ‘establishment’ who is galled at his popularity with the voters.

covoter

At some point we will hear from Maes that this additional fines are non-issues.

Joe

How does anyone still contribute to Maes? It is beyond understanding! It is throwing your money away. Also, continuing to support him financially makes it more difficult to defeat Hick, which, I assume, is what such donators ultimately desire. It is outrageous that anyone would want to elect a candidate such as Maes.

I agree that Maes is faaaaaar from an establishment candidate; he is also faaaaaaar from being qualified for any public office. He simply is not the man the grassroots movement thought him to be. David, you better speak with one of them to get the facts. The TP have backed way off from supporting him.

LynxEater

Maes inability to run a campaign that follows the law says all one needs to about his potential ability to run the State of Colorado. Regardless of his stances on the issues, the man has shown he has no business being an executive of anything.

LynxEater

Maes inability to run a campaign that follows the law says all one needs to about his potential ability to run the State of Colorado. Regardless of his stances on the issues, the man has shown he has no business being an executive of anything.

covoter

I look foward to the new Ras polling. I suspect it will indicate Maes support significantly reduced among likely voters and TT support increases accordingly.

wondering

Can someone on the conservative side please give Dan Maes some kind of job so he will go away and we can still run someone else with more potential to win? I believe the only reason he is still in this race is because he won’t have a job otherwise.

Doughboy

Diction! I think you mean “rebuffed” instead of “rebuked.”

freddy

Dan Maes is proving to be a very poor choice. His businesses are no longer making any money, so he turns to politics and runs that train off the track as well, just like his businesses.
Well with the Hick we know where we stand – just get ready to go deeper in debt. Afterall the Hick doesn’t care he already made his millions

Travismahoney740

Maes “Law Enforcement Career” consisted of less than two years in a tiny Kansas town and he was fired by the department. Why won’t he sign a release so the voters can learn why he was fired after less than two years? Makes one wonder what he is hiding?

Davidjohnson813

Hiding information has worked for Obama. Why are his education records sealed? What’s ‘sass’ for the goose is ‘sass’ for the gander.

MM2

Yes. We need a candidate who thumbs his nose at such stale institutions as “accounting practices” and “paying debts” and “separating your personal accounts from your campaign accounts”.

Anonymous

Freddy, I challenge you to proove your accusation that Hickenlooper would take us deeper into debt.

And try to come back with something more intelligent than “he’s a liberal”.

As mayor of Denver, Hickenlooper has made a lot of tough decisions in order to reign in expenses and try to bring the city into budget. Denver has fared FAR better than most cities in this country during the ecominic struggles of the last few years and alot of that is due to Hickenlooper’s pro-active belt-tightening.

And lest you forget…or more likely weren’t aware, Hickenlooper is a major reason why downtown Denver experienced the boom it did the last 15-20 years. He was one of a handful of visionaries who invested in lower downtown when it was still pretty much a seedy warehouse district.

Hickenlooper is 100 times more qualified and experienced to our next governor than both Maes and Tancredo put together.

PETER

You can speculate all you want about Dan Maes motivation to stay in the race but the facts are that he won the Republican primary in accordance with the rules. He has made it clear that he is not going away. Therefore, the only decision left for the voters is the decission to vote for the lesser of two evils, Hickenlooper or Maes?

ltravis23

Hickenloopers belt tightening as you have put it has consisted of raising fees and making up new ones just so he can say he never had to raise taxes. He might not raise taxes(can’t) but we will be paying for it one way or another.

Joey Bunch has been a reporter for 28 years, including the last 12 at The Denver Post. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry.